v1.1.0b is in Review. Will be available by end of day.

1.0.4b was skipped. Since lots of changes were made in Granite, decided to mark v1.1.0 to denote.

Loom: https://github.com/neatia/Loom

LemmyKit: https://github.com/pexavc/LemmyKit

Granite: https://github.com/pexavc/Granite

Testflight: https://testflight.apple.com/join/owwIagmV

Looms
	Create "Looms" of any group of communities from any instance. Merging their content into a singular feed.

Explore
	Visit linked instances when connected to a lemmy server. View small snippets of each and their ping response time.

Travelling Modals
	Writing modals can travel with your viewing context. Allowing you to browse content in any stack prior to publishing.

Bookmark Syncing
	All your saved posts and comments can be switched between accounts in a dedicated component.

Sharing
	Share posts or comments as images. With the intention of supporting QR codes and Engravings in the future.

Search
	Either search all, a specific subcategory with sort support. View expanded contents within the view, interacting with content as normal.

Profile
	Dynamic threads, despite viewing context. Swipe to reply to comments or tap the more button, to modify, remove, block, etc.
	Deleting and restoring with toast reactions.
	Switch accounts, view their profiles, and their scores.

Embedded Webview
	Custom JS insertion supported, customizing how webpages are viewed via direct user input is a possibility.

Light Mode
	Light mode and Dark mode supported. Refer to the color group in Assets to define preferences.

Looking for a good README editor. With maybe git functionality, but not necessary

• Like adding shields/badges/assets within automatically

• managing a directory like structure by generating new MD files in a directory like folder structure.

Essentially an IDE like environment just for markdown file management and a WYSIWYG editing experience

I am prepping a larger overview to cover all the changes made in v1.0.3b, but it is kinda late and still would like to share a quick update.

I feel very satisfied with how all of the underlying packages supporting Loom have gained lots of needed robustness all around. I view this to be close to the real beta. Probably should have called v1-1.0.3b Alpha.

This week, expect lots of refinements that will be much more consumer facing/front-end.

Details:

iPad and macOS versions will be ready by v1.0.4b (2). Still some things need to be revised.

Community info view (which triggers subscribe) will be functional again in v1.0.4b(2). It is inactive for this version.

• Share screen shots of comments and posts, auto-generated
• Slideable menu on the main feed
• Keyboard toolbar for quick markdown shortcuts and other quality of life needs. A great little feature to keep adding to in the future.
• Improve speed of modals appearing and navigation overall
  • Granite has been updated with a custom navigation stack. I am working on documentation to help share how to utilize this for your own applications. When working with multiple form factors and or client types (iPad/iPhone/mac) I found this solution I incorporated to be simple and powerful.
• Names of Looms are editable again
• Content actions revised and hooked (there's many ways to do things, so I am still making sure I get them all)
  • Edit
  • Viewing Post content
  • Block (Feed)
  • Share
  • (There are others being worked on or checked for completion, like Report)
• Fixed image uploading, compression occurs prior. This will be customizable in a future update. It is currently targeting 100kb.
• Lots of nitpick adjustments to design overall

Major Known Issues:

• Login and Add Account modals dismiss prematurely. Essentially one won’t be able to login.
• Endless spiral for loading collections of any kind, feed, community listing, post content. Simply refresh to fix it. The issue is known, just haven’t resolved yet.

Lot's more to cover. Wanted to get this build out and start the v1.0.4b journey, as I felt the quality has increased by quite a bit since the initial v1.0.3b.

v1.0.3b (build 13)

What’s New

• UX changes for the Loom UI + Creating Posts
• Setting custom Instance URLs
• Editing posts/comments (only when viewing posts or within profile)

macOS build will be available soon. iPad-specific optimizations will be addressed in (build 14)

Changes

Loom UI Moved
	The Loom interface moved to the view that was meant for composing posts. Creating posts has been moved to a modal format, triggered by the Loom logo button on the front page. Essentially switching spots.

Set Instance URL
	Tap the “Front Page” header view text and/or the domain above it, to trigger the set instance url Modal.

• You can now edit posts and/or comments when viewing a post or in your profile.

• UX / design tweaks and nitpicks in various places

• Further optimizations around state updates, bookmark component performance when switching tabs and settings component’s ability to update profile settings when logged in.

Notes

Changelog

iOS TestFlight: https://testflight.apple.com/join/owwIagmV

macOS releases: https://github.com/neatia/Lemur/releases

The next major update will be set for Friday and the same cadence will be applied for major updates per Friday.

Expect smaller updates throughout the week to focus on various bugs and improving performance on all platforms, macOS + iPad especially.

I will primarily use the Changelog to communicate update details.

Secondary Changelog: https://neatia.xyz/post/281

New post updates will only be made if there are Major feature changes/entirely new features outside of the current feature-set. Major feature changes means, entirely new flows to execute an existing feature.

Known Issues:

• community list syncing on macOS
• certain micro-interactions
• localization of lots of recently added strings

The last major feature for the "base functionality" build, is mod view. This will turn the interface into a "Mod Mode" where actions on posts/comments/persons/communities will have an additional control panel to apply mod actions. The date of this to be completed, is undecided as I'd like to review the performance around all of the base functionalities again this week.

Registration/uploading JPGs or HEICs is a bit finicky, this will be looked at this week as well.

When it comes to features outside of the "Base Scope". I am excited to get to this feature that has been on the GitHub for some time, Engravings. This will allow people to "invisibly watermark" their content. Allowing you to verify what content is yours. There are other applications of it, I'd like to experiment with such as creating shareable cards of a user's community, loom, profile, etc.

iOS Build: https://testflight.apple.com/join/owwIagmV

macOS Build: https://github.com/neatia/Loom/releases/tag/1.0.3b(10)

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Looms
	Create "Looms" of any community from any instance. Grouping their content into a singular feed

I like viewing/creating/editing abstract shaders, made a macOS client to help with this flow of mine. Simply type in the logic into the main function or add additional functions above to create the desired output with the fixed global variables provided.

Hope others find it useful as well!

Notarized build: https://github.com/neatia/Marbler/releases/tag/1.0

Thinking about design a bit more, but overall I really like the idea of being able to do this.

For instance, I wanted to merge some of the music communities in Lemmy.world into 1 feed for a playlist. So making a Loom to act as my little music visualizer for all of those is nice.

Furthermore, there was a user who noted “This is why users need the ability to group multiple communities into supergroups” by @LazaroFilm some time ago. I feel this resolves that.

They also did not like the idea of this setting being platform specific. So down the line, finding a way to create a sorta schema to share with other developers would be cool. Or the other way around, where other developers were to make one, Loom could adopt.

• visualizer (“marble”) for youtube videos
  • playback controls coming in a future update
• debouncing/throttling logics (LemmyKit updated as well)
• error toasts to communicate content interactions + posting errors
• bookmark syncing (login to sync bookmarks and navigate between local + logged in)
• new content browser